Guerrero Negro, Baja Mexico

 

We walked around the harbor in Ensenada and ate fish tacos at Lupitas right on the waterfront watching the fishermen bring in the days catch.

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We had come in to Ensenada to spend the night with the plan to catch a small planedown to Guerrero Negro the next day.

The scenes below were extraordinary with the ripples of sand dunes and the winding entrance to the famous Scammons Lagoon, also known as Ojo de Liebre (Eye of the Jackrabbit).

 

 

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The boat ride out to the lagoon takes about 20 minutes passing lovely white undulating dunes, tug boats pulling barges piled high with salt, migratory birds and sea lions.

Toward the end of the afternoon we were gifted with a breaching whale. It was spectacular. This whale, right off the bow of our tiny boat leapt out of the water a total of thirteen times in a row! 

The mothers would come for a good scratch of their barnacles! 

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